Setting up a multi-platform VPN?

[Brent Wiese]

Make your life much easier and buy a Snapgear box to act as your gateway.
The VPN support is great and easy to set up. It does both PPTP and IPSEC so
you're covered on all o/s.

It runs linux (freeswan for ipsec and poptop for pptp) so is very
configurable if you're familiar, although unlikely you'll want/need to do
much configuring.

At their pricepoints, its just not worth the time trying to get a regular pc
set up as the gateway/vpn.

http://www.snapgear.com

Cheers,
Brent


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Donald Burr of Borg
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:12 PM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org
> Subject: Setting up a multi-platform VPN?
> 
> 
> I am in business with a couple of friends of mine, and to 
> that end we are sharing an office with a single high-speed 
> DSL connection.  We are using FreeBSD (4.8-RELEASE, soon to 
> be upgraded to -STABLE) as our gateway for the ineternal 
> network, as well as serving e-mail, Web, etc.
> 
> Some of us like to work at home sometmes, and in fact there 
> are even days when NO ONE is in the office and we're all 
> working from our various homes.
> 
> To that end, we would like to be able to set up a VPN, so 
> that those people who are working from home can access the 
> office network directly.
> 
> Now here's the problem: all of us are using different OS's.  
> I use FreeBSD on my desktop, but sometimes I like to work on 
> the couch, in which case I use my Titanium PowerBook running 
> Mac OS X (which is of course based on FreeBSD).  My boss uses 
> OS X on  his iBook, and my other friend uses a Linux box.
> 
> Now, with my (admittedly virtually nonexistant) knowledge of 
> VPN, I know that Linux boxen tend to use FreeSWAN.  FreeBSD, 
> on the other hand, seems to use something called RACOON.  And 
> lord knows what OS X uses (although, since it's FreeBSD 
> based, maybe RACOON can be compiled/adapted to use on it 
> too?)  (although I just did a Google search, and according to 
> this O'Reilly Network article, it seesm that OS X has its own 
> built-in PPTP
> implementation: 
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.> html)
> 
> 
> Can anyone more knowledgable than I help me figure 
> out how to get this multi-platform VPN monster going?  Help!  
> I need some backup!!
> 
> Thanks,
> Donald
> dburr at borg-cube.com
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